First Oil, Now Bombs: All Sorts Of Cool Stuff Washing Up On Alabama Beaches

Nothing like a little explosive WW2 diversion washing up to take away the attention from the latest outpouring of tarball love courtesy of British Petroleum. WKRG reports that a bomb was found on Orange Beach in Alabama. "The device is
disk-shaped and about 3 feet wide and appears to weigh about 500 lbs.
It was found in the surfline. Crews have cordoned off about 30 yards of
beach with construction fence. Authorities believe it might be an old World War
II shell of some sort." Surely, this is one of the key upside catalysts sought for by all BP value investors.

A scary day for beachgoers in Orange Beach after
an explosive device is found near Perdido Pass.

Lt. Steve Brown with Orange Beach Police tells News 5 that the device
appears to be an underwater bomb. It was found on the east side of the
Perdido Pass near the jetties. Orange Beach Police and Fire are on the
scene.

A bomb squad from NAS Pensacola is enroute to the scene. We hope to
have more information for News 5 at Noon.

Bored and unsupervised, five highly paid electricians working for the city of San Francisco spent years allegedly stealing from taxpayers during a remarkable binge that investigators say involved sex parties with prostitutes, moonlighting on city time and fraudulent billing to pay for their suburban lifestyles.

They allegedly charged the city hundreds of thousands of dollars for personal purchases, including BMW tires, lease payments on a truck and even remodeling a home in Contra Costa County's tony Blackhawk subdivision. The men are accused of running a private contracting business on city time, collecting government paychecks while working on unauthorized jobs and billing the costs to taxpayers as well.

They also are accused of hiring prostitutes for sexual encounters at their remote worksite on the former Navy base in San Francisco Bay and stocking a private bedroom in their office suite with liquor, condoms, Viagra and pornographic DVDs.

They were known as the Hetch Hetchy Power Crew, an elite unit named for the reservoir in Yosemite National Park that supplies the city with hydroelectric power. Their difficult, sometimes dangerous job was to maintain the city's high-voltage electrical system, especially during emergencies.

Five members of the power crew were arrested last year after a whistle-blower complained that crew leader Donnie Alan Thomas, 46, was moonlighting on city time. The men, along with two women accused of creating fake invoices to further the scheme, are awaiting trial in San Francisco Superior Court on felony charges. All have pleaded not guilty.

Anybody here wonder how stupid it is to cordon off 30 yards of beach for 500 pounds of military grade HE? The kill radius of a fucking hand grenade is about 4-5 meters. Does anyone down there have any neurons firing at all?

Now citizens are reporting the presence of soldiers on Florida’s beaches. In the video below, several soldiers in combat fatigues were photographed driving vehicles on the beach in Panama City, Florida.

On May 4, up to 17,500 U.S. Army National Guard troops were mobilized by the Pentagon “to help various states with the oil spill,” according to the Associated Press. “Defense Secretary Robert Gates has granted requests to send troops of up to 6,000 by Louisiana, 3,000 by Alabama, 2,500 by Florida and 6,000 by Mississippi.”

The military pictured in the video do not appear to be engaged in clean-up activities. It appears their presence on a crowded beach during a holiday weekend has but one purpose — to acclimate citizens to the prospect of troops patrolling public spaces.

Florida has yet to experience oil washing up on beaches to the extent occurring in Louisiana and other Gulf of Mexico states.

Tucked away in a strip center called Patriot Square in Naples, sharing a building with Victoria's Nail & Spa, Mangrove Outfitters and others, is Southwest Florida's only BP Claims Center.

The lone identifying mark is a small white sign stuck in the grass out front. The office and sign aren't visible from U.S. 41. Three signs with information about hours and more are taped to the front door.

wow....thats cool stuff....wish was there - i envy the people who find the stuff...we live in interesting times - as the chinese cursing goes...i am sure more will follow. this is just the end of the beginning....

I was recently reminded of some reading I did in college, way back in the last century, by a British historian arguing that the critical technology, for the early phase of the industrial revolution, was gin.

The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation. The stories from that era are amazing-- there were gin pushcarts working their way through the streets of London.

And it wasn't until society woke up from that collective bender that we actually started to get the institutional structures that we associate with the industrial revolution today. Things like public libraries and museums, increasingly broad education for children, elected leaders--a lot of things we like--didn't happen until having all of those people together stopped seeming like a crisis and started seeming like an asset.

It wasn't until people started thinking of this as a vast civic surplus, one they could design for rather than just dissipate, that we started to get what we think of now as an industrial society.

This is a nightmare for the US government. The contractors were under strict orders that all bombs set around the BP well had to detonate because no evidence of them could ever be found. Now some people might begin to question whether this "national disaster" is in fact another 9/11 false flag operation to control the American people.

Not only are our oceans being polluted at a faster rate than ever forecast by catastrophes never imagined, which we are cautioned will likely require major new taxes and regulations, the wars on Poverty, Homelessness and Drugs are filing miserably, likewise demanding greater taxes, regulations and curtailment of personal freedoms for our citizens own good.

But we are now, as alluded to by Steven Hawking, the eminent scientist the other week (when he alluded to it, not when he was eminent) in agreement with the Nobel Laureate Blue Ribbon Panel yet to be appointed, have concluded that it was in facta long lost UFO which clumsily collided with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig loosing the ecological devil demon of Fossil Fuel Hell on the last Celebration of Earth Day, likewise demanding of additional taxes, regulation and curtailment of personal freedoms.

While no governmental agency has ever taken fault for misplacing the Roswell Disk Shaped Weather Balloon which supposedly never existed, it is assumed that agencies of a the United States Government in the direct employ of BP were responsible for the reappearance and negligible piloting of said UFO which presumably caused the disaster had been stored in Mr. Hawkings' garage since 1947.